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European Court upholds €477mn in cargo cartel fines

The European General Court has upheld European Commission fines totalling EUR477.46 million euros (USD532.46 million) against Air France-KLM, Martinair, Cargolux, and Singapore Airlines for their part in an air cargo pricing cartel more than 20 years ago.

However, the court has reduced fines imposed and in some cases partly annulled decisions by the European anti-trust regulator relating to JAL - Japan Airlines, Air Canada, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, LATAM Airlines, and its subsidiary LATAM Cargo Chile, according to a statement issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union on March 30, 2022.

As reported, the case harks back to EUR790 million (USD881 million) worth of fines originally imposed by the Commission on November 9, 2010, on eleven global airlines that had colluded to fix fuel and security surcharges between December 1999 and February 2006.

The airlines involved were Air Canada, Air France-KLM, British Airways, Cargolux, Cathay Pacific Airways, Japan Airlines, LATAM/LAN Cargo, Martinair, SAS, Singapore Airlines, and Qantas....

Shanghai lockdown limits Pudong, Hongqiao ops

The Chinese government has imposed its most extensive lockdown yet, closing down most business activities in the 26-million Shanghai agglomeration due to an explosion in COVID-19 cases. While both Shanghai Pudong and Shanghai Hongqiao remain open, traffic has dwindled to a trickle.

The South China Morning Post reported that on March 29, Pudong served less than 5% of its pre-March number of daily flights. Under the authorities' "rolling lockdown" policy, the whole district of Pudong was the first to close for mass testing until April 1. Afterwards, the lockdown will move to the district of Puxi.

According to Flightradar24 ADS-B data, as of March 30, 2022, there are 259 aircraft parked at Shanghai Pudong and a further 128 at Hongqiao, although the numbers are also affected by the grounding of all B737-800s operated by China Eastern Airlines (MU, Shanghai Hongqiao) and its subsidiaries in the wake of the recent crash.

The lockdown threatens to completely choke cargo operations at Shanghai, the mainland's biggest freight hub. Even though air freight operations are...